This is the second of the 3 paintings I did from the wrecker's yard photos.

I wanted to attempt the local hills as they meet the flat plain again, but felt I needed to pull everything down and across into a dominant vertical post in the left corner, while the car is up and further away, not significant. I had just photographed the sign, having previously passed it hundreds of times, and really wanted to use it somewhere, so it stopped and balanced that side of the composition which would otherwise have fallen away along the fence line.

I had huge problems flattening the dirt road and balancing that fence post so, quite late in the painting, I added the dog.

**There are more notes on the dog on the Compare Use of Black Dog Page, a comparison of my development in painting the Mount Lofty Ranges on the Compare Hills Page and more wrecker images on the Compare the use of  Wrecked Vehicles Page.